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Map ≠ Territory
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Everyone, Someone.
Cover, story.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Truth, Perception
You are what you think you are.
Learning.
Generalist, specialist.
Switching costs.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Well done is better than well said.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Work vs. Luck
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
+2 vs. x2
It is really hard to make something easy.
More before better.
More moves and less chat.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Done is better than perfect.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Process vs. plan.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Said, done.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The obstacle is the way.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Labor, leverage.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Reason for being
Building vs. betting.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Slow down.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Mindset vs. Mind set
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Distraction, focus.
